COLUMBUS (WCMH) — The Big Game Live continues Friday with a look at the last Sweet 16 games as the top NCAA men’s basketball teams battle it out on the hardwood for their slot in the Elite 8.
Thursday night, Gonzaga, Purdue, Texas Tech and Virginia all won.
Jerod Smalley and the Nexstar Nation team report from Kansas City, Washington D.C., Anaheim and Lousiville with updates on Friday nights matchups: North Carolina vs. Auburn, Virginia Tech vs. Duke, LSU vs. Michigan; and a look ahead at Saturday’s Elite 8 matchup of Purdue vs. Virginia.
Want to read more Big Tournament content? Click on “Sports“ then “The Big Tournament“ to read and watch the stories Jerod and the Nexstar Nation team talk about during today’s show.
(NEXSTAR) — “The Big Tournament Live” with host Jerod Smalley continues into week two, taking you right into the madness of the NCAA tournament before the games start each day.
You can stream The Big Tournament Live:
- Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 3 p.m. EST
- Sunday, stream the show at 1 p.m. EST.
If you missed out on week one of The Big Tournament Live, Smalley and the Nexstar Nation team reported live from all eight venues before the biggest games of round one and two, with Smalley explaining the matchups on his touchscreen Big Board and speaking with the reporters on the ground for their insight on the teams they cover every day.
Week two will be even more fun, with reporters from all over the country covering the top 16 NCAA men’s basketball teams, then the elite eight!
You can stream the show right here on this website or in the free app.
Click here for more coverage from the Big Tournament.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (NEXSTAR) — Round two of the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament reaches its thrilling conclusion Sunday, but first, Jerod Smalley and The Big Tournament Live take you around the country to all eight venues for live reports on the biggest matchups of the weekend.
Stream the show at noon EST right here, with reports on Tennessee, Iowa, Duke, Virginia Tech, Buffalo, Texas Tech, UNC, Washington and Ohio State.
In the app? Click here to stream live.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (NEXSTAR) – The madness is here, and we’re taking you live around the country before tip off for the 2019 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament first and second round games starting today at noon EST.
Columbus-based sports director Jerod Smalley is set to host The Big Tournament, a live digital streaming show featuring an interactive touchscreen bracket on the Big Tournament Big Board and live reports from all eight venues where the top NCAA men’s basketball teams will face off for the first and second round games.
“We have a very cool way to do it with our Big Board. Every team is listed on our screen,” Smalley said. “We’ll go in and tell you team by team what their information is.”
Then, we’ll have a little bit more fun, as Jerod goes through the brackets to show you who he thinks will advance.
“We can show people the tournament in a way they haven’t seen very often,” Smalley explained. “We’ll be checking in with reporters from all across the country at the eight different venues.”
The Big Tournament streams live right here Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at noon EST with live reports from Columbus; Jacksonville, Fla.; Columbia, South Carolina; Salt Lake City, Utah; Hartford, Conn.; San Jose, Calif.; Tulsa, Okla.; and Des Moines, Iowa.
Click here for more coverage from the Big Tournament.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (NEXSTAR) – The madness is here, and we’re taking you live around the country before tip off for the 2019 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament first and second round games starting Thursday, March 21 at noon EST.
Columbus-based sports director Jerod Smalley is set to host The Big Tournament, a live digital streaming show featuring an interactive touchscreen bracket on the Big Tournament Big Board, featuring live reports from all eight venues where the top NCAA men’s basketball teams will face off for the first and second round games.
“We have a very cool way to do it with our Big Board. Every team is listed on our screen,” Smalley said. “We’ll go in and tell you team by team what their information is.”
Then, we’ll have a little bit more fun, as Jerod goes through the brackets to show you who he thinks will advance.
“We can show people the tournament in a way they haven’t seen very often,” Smalley explained. “We’ll be checking in with reporters from all across the country at the eight different venues.”
The Big Tournament streams live right here Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at noon EST with live reports from Columbus; Jacksonville, Fla.; Columbia, South Carolina; Salt Lake City, Utah; Hartford, Conn.; San Jose, Calif.; Tulsa, Okla.; and Des Moines, Iowa.
Click here for more coverage from the Big Tournament.
It’s Race Day at Daytona! Host Dan Lucas is joined by special guest driver Parker Kligerman just hours before the Daytona 500.
In this action-packed edition of Big Game Bound: Live from Atlanta, some of the biggest names in the sports broadcasting world preview Sunday’s championship matchup.
James Brown, who is the Super Bowl host for CBS Sports, tells Anthony “AC” Calhoun how he stays calm when tens of millions of viewers are tuning in.
Chris Myers, a veteran sportcaster as well, reveals why he’s picking the Los Angeles Rams to win a thriller.
Chris Jablonski of StubHub also joins the set to discuss the latest ticket price trends affecting the Big Game.
Watch Big Game Bound: Live from Atlanta all week long at 1:00pm EST on this website for more inside access from Anthony “AC” Calhoun and J.B. Biunno.
ATLANTA (NEXSTAR) — The Rams and the Patriots are Big Game Bound, and so are we!
Big Game Bound is live from Atlanta at SBLIII Radio Row starting Monday, Jan. 28 with AC Calhoun, JB Biunno and surprise guests. Catch the preshow right here from 12:45 p.m. ET and join the conversation on Facebook Live and Big Game Bound at 1 p.m. ET, Monday through Sunday.
We want to hear from you! Use #BigGameBound on Facebook or Twitter to talk to JB and AC live during the show.
LAS VEGAS (AP) – The rapid-fire popping sounded like firecrackers at first, and many in the crowd of 22,000 country music fans didn’t understand what was happening when the band stopped playing and singer Jason Aldean hustled off stage.
“That’s gunshots,” a man could be heard saying emphatically on a cellphone video in the nearly half-minute of silence and confusion that followed. A woman pleaded with others: “Get down! Get down! Stay down!”
Then the pop-pop-pop noise resumed. And pure terror set in.
“People start screaming and yelling and we start running,” said Andrew Akiyoshi, who provided the cellphone video to The Associated Press. “You could feel the panic. You could feel like the bullets were flying above us. Everybody’s ducking down, running low to the ground.”
While some concertgoers hit the ground Sunday night, others pushed for the crowded exits, shoving through narrow gates and climbing over fences as 40- to 50-round bursts of fire rained down on them from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino hotel.
By Monday afternoon, 59 victims were dead and 527 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
“You just didn’t know what to do,” Akiyoshi said. “Your heart is racing and you’re thinking, ‘I’m going to die.’”
The gunman, identified as Stephen Craig Paddock, a 64-year-old retired accountant from Mesquite, Nevada, killed himself before officers stormed Room 135 in the gold-colored glass skyscraper.
The avid gambler who according to his brother made a small fortune investing in real estate had been staying there since Thursday and had busted out windows to create his sniper’s perch roughly 500 yards from the concert grounds.
The motive for the attack remained a mystery, with Sheriff Joseph Lombardo saying: “I can’t get into the mind of a psychopath at this point.”
Paddock had 23 guns – some with scopes – in his hotel room, authorities said. They found two gun stocks that allow the shooter to replicate fully automatic fire, and are investigating whether weapons used in the massacre had those modifications, according to a U.S. official briefed by law enforcement who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still unfolding.
At Paddock’s home, authorities found 19 more guns, explosives and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Also, several pounds of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer that can be turned into explosives such as those used in the 1995 Oklahoma bombing, were in his car, the sheriff said.
The FBI said it found nothing so far to suggest the attack was connected to international terrorism, despite a claim of responsibility from the Islamic State group, which said Paddock was a “soldier” who had recently converted to Islam.
In an address to the country, President Donald Trump called the bloodbath “an act of pure evil” and added: “In moments of tragedy and horror, America comes together as one. And it always has.” He ordered flags flown at half-staff.
With hospitals jammed with victims, authorities put out a call for blood donations and set up a hotline to report missing people and speed the identification of the dead and wounded. They also opened a “family reunification center” for people to find loved ones.
More than 12 hours after the massacre, bodies covered in white sheets were still being removed from the festival grounds.
The shooting began at 10:07 p.m., and the gunman appeared to fire unhindered for more than 10 minutes, according to radio traffic. Police frantically tried to locate him and determine whether the gunfire was coming from Mandalay Bay or the neighboring Luxor hotel.
At 10:14 p.m., an officer said on his radio that he was pinned down against a wall on Las Vegas Boulevard with 40 to 50 people.
“We can’t worry about the victims,” an officer said at 10:15 p.m. “We need to stop the shooter before we have more victims. Anybody have eyes on him … stop the shooter.”
Near the stage, Dylan Schneider, a country singer who performed earlier in the day, huddled with others under the VIP bleachers, where he turned to his manager and asked, “Dude, what do we do?” He said he repeated the question again and again over the next five minutes.
Bodies were lying on the artificial turf installed in front of the stage, and people were screaming and crying. The sound of people running on the bleachers added to the confusion, and Schneider thought the concert was being invaded with multiple shooters.
“No one knew what to do,” Schneider said. “It’s literally running for your life and you don’t know what decision is the right one. But like I said, I knew we had to get out of there.”
He eventually pushed his way out of the crowd and found refuge in the nearby Tropicana hotel-casino, where he kicked in a door to an engineering room and spent hours there with others who followed him.
The shooting started as Aldean closed out the three-day Route 91 Harvest Festival. He had just begun the song “When She Says Baby,” and the first burst of nearly 50 shots crackled as he sang, “It’s tough just getting up.”
Muzzle flashes could be seen in the dark as the gunman fired away.
“It was the craziest stuff I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” said Kodiak Yazzie, 36. “You could hear that the noise was coming from west of us, from Mandalay Bay. You could see a flash, flash, flash, flash.”
The crowd, funneled tightly into a wide-open space, had little cover and no easy way to escape. Victims fell to the ground, while others fled in panic. Some hid behind concession stands or crawled under parked cars.
Faces were etched with shock and confusion, and people wept and screamed.
Tales of heroism and compassion emerged quickly: Couples held hands as they ran through the dirt lot. Some of the bleeding were carried out by fellow concertgoers. While dozens of ambulances took away the wounded, some people loaded victims into their cars and drove them to the hospital. People fleeing the concert grounds hitched rides with strangers, piling into cars and trucks.
Some of the injured were hit by shrapnel. Others were trampled or were injured jumping fences.
The dead included at least three off-duty police officers from various departments who were attending the concert, authorities said. Two on-duty officers were wounded, one critically, police said.
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman said the attack was the work of a “crazed lunatic full of hate.”
The sheriff said authorities believe Paddock acted alone. While Paddock appeared to have no criminal history, his father was a bank robber who was on the FBI’s most-wanted list in the 1960s.
As for why Paddock went on the murderous rampage, his brother in Florida, Eric Paddock, told reporters: “I can’t even make something up. There’s just nothing.”
Hours after the shooting, Aldean posted on Instagram that he and his crew were safe and that the shooting was “beyond horrific.”
“It hurts my heart that this would happen to anyone who was just coming out to enjoy what should have been a fun night,” the country star said.
Before Sunday, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history took place in June 2016, when a gunman who professed support for Muslim extremist groups opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people.
A suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, killed 22 people in May. Almost 90 people were killed in 2015 at a concert in Paris by gunmen inspired by the Islamic State.Brian Melley in Los Angeles; Brian Skoloff in Las Vegas; Sadie Gurman and Tami Abdollah in Washington; and Kristin M. Hall in Nashville, Tennessee, and Jocelyn Gecker in San Francisco contributed to this report.